The current heatwave scorching Europe has the clear fingerprints of climate change and represents “the latest price to pay for fossil fuel pollution baking our planet,” UN climate chief Simon Stiell warned Thursday.
Stiell’s comments follow a week of extreme heat across the continent, which has triggered high-level heat alerts and broken temperature records in France, Britain, and Spain.
The climate chief emphasized that these intense weather events will only continue to escalate, stating that “until humanity stops burning colossal amounts of coal, oil and gas, extreme heat will keep getting worse.”
